| 1836 - 558 strani
...no note of time But from tts loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity !... | |
| 1837 - 646 strani
...pause." — Night Third. Or the vivid portrait of a person terrified at his perilous situation, where " hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down." — Or the good man uplifted above the tumulte of the world— a passage evidently in the memory of... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 strani
...her end. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn...How much is to be done ! my hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity... | |
| 1838 - 876 strani
...frofound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation ileept .'" The boll strikes — and " tis as if an angel spoke." "I feel the solemn sound—...knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the hours before the flood !" Young, they say, was a disappointed man, and was world-sick because of unsuccessful... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1838 - 312 strani
...remembrance of lost time, and the present and urgent tokens of its hasty flight ? Well saith the poet, "It is the signal that demands despatch ; How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed; and o'er life's narrow verge, Look down—on what? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, how... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1885 - 60 strani
...passage — " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn...How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 strani
...THOUGHTS.—ro«niii. The bell strikes " One !" We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn...despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Rise up alarmed, and, o'er life's narrow verge, Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread... | |
| Truths - 1885 - 572 strani
...Young. mHE bell strikes one. We take no note of Time, -L But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an Angel spoke, I feel the solemn...Years beyond the Flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! iTiinr. — Shakespeare. TIME is the old Justice, that examines... | |
| F. Rønning - 1886 - 1310 strani
...The bell strikes one. We takt no note of time, but from its loss. To give it then a tongue, is trise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If henrd aright, it is the knell of my departed hoitrs: Whcre åre they? With the years beyond the fiood.... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1919 - 1030 strani
...cross-stitching in the fact that she was "Instructed by H. Burt:" "The Bell strikes one We take no note of in is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn...heard aright it is the knell Of my departed hours;" which rollicking stanza was embellished by the nameless little worker with a gravestone beside a church.... | |
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